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The Myth of Sisyphus

by Albert Camus

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Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

by Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)

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Ryan’s Quotes

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
― Epicurus

tags: awful, death, inspirational, peace, philosophy, serenity, wisdom

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“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.”
― Gerald Massey

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“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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